The fierce resistance to the coup - and the failure of the coup leaders to forge links with any ideological or politically viable constituency ( Berridge, 2021 ) - suggests that the coup leaders will have to hurriedly cut deals with FFC elites who are prepared to do business with the military, or attempt to ride out the storm of protests coming their way. On 27 October, SudanвЂ™s membership of the African Union was suspended for the second time since the removal of Bashir in April 2019 ( Al Jazeera, 27 October 2021 ). While Hamdok and his wife were released that evening, further arrests of civilian politicians and trade unionists were reported ( AP, 27 October 2021 ). Bodies tasked with investigating the massacre of 3 June 2019 (discussed below) and with dismantling the вЂdeep stateвЂ™ of ex-President Omar al Bashir and the National Congress Party (NCP) were also dissolved ( Al Jazeera, 25 October 2021 ), perhaps tipping the hand of the generals who organized the coup in the process.Д«y 26 October, amid widespread condemnation at home and abroad, Burhan re-emphasized that the seizure of power would only last until elections in mid-2023, and that Prime Minister Hamdok would be released from custody later that day. On 25 October, he announced that a state of emergency was in effect, and that civilian political institutions established under the Constitutional Declaration of August 2019 would be dissolved. The ringleader of the coup - Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al Burhan - is the military head of the Sovereign Council, and the commander-in-chief of SAF. Demonstrations have since spread across much of Sudan. Over ten people have reportedly been killed by state forces thus far and over 160 wounded ( Radio Dabanga, 29 October 2021 UN OCHA, 28 October 2021 ), with at least some victims uninvolved in the demonstrations ( Eye Radio, 27 October 2021 ). They were confronted by soldiers from the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries in the capital, with reports emerging of Central Reserve Police paramilitaries also being deployed ( Human Rights Watch, 29 October 2021 ).

Following the arrest of the civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and several prominent senior officials from the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), demonstrators took to the streets across Khartoum. The military coup dвЂ™Г©tat in Sudan on 25 October 2021 sent shockwaves across the region and through diplomatic circuits.

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